A Song of Hyderabad
Memories of a World Gone By
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 13 January 2011
- ISBN 9780195473490
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 228x147x22 mm
- Weight 486 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 61 black and white photos 0
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Short description:
This is a remarkably honest and unabashed account of a life that begins during the fading days of the wealthiest of India's princely states. Bilquis Jehan was born in 1930 into a family with ties to the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and enjoyed the privilege and luxury of a way of life that no longer exists. Her tale takes us through her childhood and her marriage at the age of 16, just at the birth of modern India and Pakistan. Her new life in Pakistan as the
wife of an executive (himself half-European), working for a multi-national corporation, is recounted with insight and delight. She and her family join the cosmopolitan world of the elite in what is now the mega-city of Karachi, travels and experiences the world, far beyond what her own childhood would
have predicted. Through all the changes she preserves her heritage in her own way, transmitting it through her books, Mughal Cuisine and Khush Ziaka, of Mughal and Hyderabadi cuisine.
This is also a personal account of her spiritual journey based on the Sufi teachings of her pir and her father of the Chishtiya and Qadria silsilas in India. She opens a window onto a life that incorporates both modernity and religion, in contrast to the increasingly strident and politicized Islam that has gained a foothold in Pakistan. Bilquis Jehan's life mirrors the monumental changes in her time through the quotidian. Her life is described in these pages with candour, and an abiding love
for the world she left behind and the new world she grew to love.
Long description:
This is a remarkably honest and unabashed account of a life that begins during the fading days of the wealthiest of India's princely states. Bilquis Jehan was born in 1930 into a family with ties to the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and enjoyed the privilege and luxury of a way of life that no longer exists. Her tale takes us through her childhood and her marriage at the age of 16, just at the birth of modern India and Pakistan. Her new life in Pakistan as the
wife of an executive (himself half-European), working for a multi-national corporation, is recounted with insight and delight. She and her family join the cosmopolitan world of the elite in what is now the mega-city of Karachi, travels and experiences the world, far beyond what her own childhood would
have predicted. Through all the changes she preserves her heritage in her own way, transmitting it through her books, Mughal Cuisine and Khush Ziaka, of Mughal and Hyderabadi cuisine.
This is also a personal account of her spiritual journey based on the Sufi teachings of her pir and her father of the Chishtiya and Qadria silsilas in India. She opens a window onto a life that incorporates both modernity and religion, in contrast to the increasingly strident and politicized Islam that has gained a foothold in Pakistan. Bilquis Jehan's life mirrors the monumental changes in her time through the quotidian. Her life is described in these pages with candour, and an abiding love
for the world she left behind and the new world she grew to love.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Family Tree
Introduction
Part I: HYDERABAD
The Bird of Gold
My Family History
A Second Set of Parents
Nasir Manzil, the Family Home
A Little Girl in a Big Mansion
A Grand Wedding
How to Run a Palace
The Jagir that Supported Us
Mangoes and Corn
My First Fast and Eid
Mairaj Apa Intercedes
A Collector of Clocks and Walking Sticks
Life at Court
The Old Ways
Hyderabadi Weddings
Womanhood and Engagements
Wed at Sixteen
A Mixed Marriage
Early Married Life
My Unusual Father
A Holy Man's Life and Works
Finding My Path and My Father's Death
Farewell to Hyderabad
Part II: ONWARDS
Nayyar, a Pakistani Baby
Lahore, London, and Dacca
New Ways of Bringing up Children
An American Journey
London Again
Back to a War
Haj
Nayyar's Marriage
An Illness, and Hasan's Return
Two Years of Anxiety
Hasan's Wedding in Washington D.C.
Mummy's Death
Life in Modern Kuwait
Cooking Up Mughal Cuisine
Singapore, and Hyderabad Revisited
Postscript
People in this Book
Glossary
